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Individual Wells
Mason County Health Services has been delegated authority by the Department of Ecology to oversee the sealing and decommissioning portions of Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 173-160 in relation to drinking water wells. The Department of Ecology is responsible for regulating all other portions of WAC 173-160 in Mason County. To view this regulation or any other information regarding individual wells, click the following link: Dept. of Ecology. From this link, you may also access the State Department of Ecology’s Water Well Report (Well Log) database.

In order to drill a well in Mason County you must perform the following steps:

  1. Discuss the well siting with your driller. Become familiar with the well setbacks as listed in the individual well siting link to the left.
  2. Determine whether you or your driller will obtain the necessary documents (Notices of Intent from Ecology and Mason County with attendant fees)
  3. Once the fees are paid and documents submitted, the driller must call Mason County Health at least 24 hours prior to starting the well.
  4. Drill the well.
  5. The driller must submit a copy of the Water Well Report to the well owner and to Ecology.
  6. If the well is being drilled preparatory to building a water sample should be analyzed and results submitted with the building permit.